SAPA BEAUTY WITH TRIBES – SAPA TOUR VIETNAM

Sapa is the top famous sightseeing destination in the North of Vietnam. It is well known thanks to the cool temperature enough for French to choose it as a Hill Station at Indochina war time. It is also famous the stunning view of a colonial city in cloud, the spectacular mountains, rice terrace fields, the beautiful valley with relics of hand-writing messages that no one today can decode. Nevertheless, the one brings most charm and attraction for Sapa is the people living here. Those are the ethnic minority living at the valleys among the mountain ranges, who are named Black H’Mong, Red Dzao, Xa Pho, Tay, Zay…etc. The people with different language, culture, religious belief, costumes makes a impressively beautiful pictures to any travelers, local or foreigner.

This Sapa tour Vietnam mainly at hiking and trekking. That’s the trekking across villages, over the hills, thru the vegetable plantations, into the houses of the hill tribes, along the beautiful valleys and try to get the culture Nobel prize if reaching the possibility of decoding the messages, etc.

Is that enough to make Sapa attractive?

OVERVIEW

This real adventure Sapa tour Vietnam lasts four nights and three days. It is four nights because the tour starts at 8:30 PM by Hanoi train to arrive Sapa in the morning of the next day, and finishes when the train arrives Hanoi in the morning after the fourth night. So, the trip has two nights on the train and two nights on the chosen accommodation, which we have two options of hotel and homestay. And of course, we recommend the homestay for the real feeling of adventure and clore-up to the local daily life..

Apart from 4 nights of sleeping, we have three days of trekking and hiking, one of which is spent for a periodical market meeting. Depend on your travel day we will take you to Bac Ha, Can Cau, or Coc Ly, or another. Periodical market meeting is the opportunity for hill tribes to exchange and entertain one per week, then is able to show you the colorful picture of clothes, agricultural products, poultry, castles, etc. The other two days are for trekking of approximate 4 – 6 hours per day among the amazing beauty of villages, hills, terraced rice fields, vegetable plantations, houses of the hill tribes, valleys and un-decoded messages. The two day trekking and the periodical market visit can change the order to catch the right day of their meeting.

Along the trekking, F&B service (except homestay) is only at local level, so our tour guide and helpers also the cook for you. Enjoy another adventure.

Be prepared for a very good trekking shoes, for example the one with static heel. A cap, insect repellent and a spirit of adventure are also a must.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS

Colorful Bac Ha or Can Cau periodical market meeting

Great scenery with rice terrace, mountains, valleys along the trekking.

Meeting hill tribes people in their house and learn about their culture.

ITINERARY

DAY 0: HANOI – LAO CAI (night train)

Be welcomed by our tour guide at 20:30 at the hotel to star the Sapa tour Vietnam. Take a transfer to Hanoi Railway station for the overnight to Sapa. Enjoy the soft bed at the air-con room at the best train in Vietnam.

DAY 01: LAO CAI – BAC HA – SAPA

As the train arrive Lao Cai station, have a transfer to a a local restaurant for breakfast and refreshment. Take a drive to one periodical market meeting market, across villages of hill tribes, over the hills looking down to the valleys. The Bac Ha market opens only on Sunday. It always delivers a very photogenic display of Flower Hmong, Black Zao, Phu La ethnic costumes. Spending the whole morning wandering the market, from the horse area to the corner for rice whisky.

In the afternoon, have a visit to small villages of Tay people for understand their daily life and business. Pass by a local house and taste a cup of corn wine, another famous product of hill tribes. Then take a drive to hotel or home stay late in the afternoon for overnight.

DAY 02: SAPA – LAO CHAI – TA VAN – Y LINH HO

Have breakfast, then follow a lovely trek along buffalo paths and trails and through several hill tribe villages Lao Chai & Ta Van, home to Black H’mong, and Dzay people. Enjoy the spectacular scenery with villages in the middle of the hills, the terrace rice fields and the Muong Hoa valleys with agricultural plantations. The trekking go along two different tribes with different costume and daily life styles, but the same beauty of smiles.

We stay overnight with a local family in Y Linh Ho and have our dinner here, or walk to a main road to take the jeep back to Sapa for overnight in the hotel.

DAY 03: Y LINH HO – GIANG TA CHAI – BAN HO

The Sapa tour Vietnam trekking today is to visit Red Dao people at Giang Ta Chai where we also see a waterfall. The typical point for the Red Dao women identity is the very colorful red embroidery attached with coins of them, plus a red scarf on their head. Another identity is the shaved off eyebrows due to a legend from their ancestors.

Continue along small paths in the rice fields, cross the Muong Hoa River and trek up to ban Ho where a jeep awaits and transfers back to Sapa train for the night train to Hanoi.

DAY 04: LAO CAI – HANOI

Arrival Hanoi in the early morning. End the Sapa tour Vietnam at the train station.

ACCOMODATION

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DAY 1,4: NIGHT TRAIN

SAPA TRAIN EXPRESS

The train journeys are an experience in themselves as this is the ideal way for travelers to get around and see Vietnam at ground level. Meet some Vietnamese, see the families on the train, watching Vietnamese countryside from back views, picturing with the guards.

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DAY 2-3: SAPA HOMESTAY

HILL TRIBES HOME

The corner of staying for guests might be an extended one from the house for more income for the family, or just a bed where mosquito net and thin mattress are provided. The condition is basic but the experience to the local daily life living is great.

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